6 months old!

My how the past 6 months have flown by! I cannot believe that our baby girl is 1/2 a year old. It has been a great 1/2 year and we could not have asked for a better baby! We have 6-month photos scheduled for next week, as well as Ellie's 6-month check-up. I will post all the details/photos sometime next week. In the meantime, a few little updates on our sweet little girl:

- She still has blue eyes! This TOTALLY makes her Mommy happy, as I was hoping that we would have a blue eyed baby.

- She has eaten through both rice and oatmeal cereal, as well as a variety of veggies. Tonight will be her first experience with fruits. I know she will love them, and just hope her love for veggies continues as well.

- She can almost sit up by herself. She does it for a little bit, then flops over as she is trying to grab something.

- She knows her name, one of the day-care sub ladies was super impressed when she asked "which one is Ellie" and Ellie immediately turned her head. She knows who she is!

- She sleeps 12 hours a night, going to bed around 7:00-7:15PM. While we love having the extra time at night to get things done around the house, we miss being able to play with her after work.

- She has no teeth, yet.

- She currently has pink eye. Oddly enough it hasn't impacted her terrific mood, and she never rubbed her eyes in discomfort.

- She really is a very happy baby. Very happy. When she cries hard you know something is up.

- After her first vacation at Grandma and Grandpa Greving's she started to grow hair instead of lose it! Maybe we should send her there more often.

- She rolls over. A lot. In her sleep every night. She now wakes up on her tummy (the Dr. said that was OK).

A little teaser for what is to come next week: when we visited the Dr. for the pink eye on Tuesday, she weighed in at 17 pounds 15.5 ounces! Wonder if she will pack on the weight to make it to 18 pounds before her official visit next Tuesday!

And we cannot wait to have her pictures taken by Nuzum Photography next week! If I spent 2 months planning her Easter outfit, imagine how much thought went into her 6-month photo outfit(s)!